Re: Question: URI reference and media type in HTML/XML

[MURATA Makoto <murata.makoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> > 	<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="#style1"?>
> > 
> > We have agreed that fragments do not have media types.  What will  
> > happen to such media types combined with fragment identifiers?
> > Should they be simply ignored?
> 
> This is another case where the fragment inherits the media type.
> Again, the entire document must be fetched (as text/xml), and then
> the fragment identifier resplved in terms of that. With the example
> above, the fragment shoould be resolved in the resource containing the
> reference.

You are talking about how to locate a fragment by using frgament identifiers.  
Yes, we need to know the media type of the entire document.

I was actually talking about how can we tell if a located frament is XSLT 
or not.  We might have some other stylesheet languges which are expressed 
in the XML syntax.

Bert Bos wrote:
> What we don't know yet, is what type the style sheet is. If it is
> embedded, it is probably CSS or XSL, but how do we find out which?
> Heuristics will work in this case, of course, but that is not a
> scalable solution. It seems to me that we have no other place to put
> the type of the fragment than on the PI...

Yes, this is my point.  

Makoto
 
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